By JULIE WIENER(JTA) -- Ayelet Shaked (pronounced ShahKED), Israel’s newly appointed justice minister and a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party, has quickly risen to prominence having served just two years in the Knesset.

By MYRON LOVE Noam Shoval is definitely not in favour of redividing Jerusalem. Despite some groups’ plans for such a division in the name of peace, the Hebrew University Geography Professor and lifelong Jerusalemite argues that dividing the ancient city will not bring about peace.

By DAVID MATAS Going to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva means wandering into an alternative universe. Everywhere else, people are concerned about a wide variety of human rights issues. In Geneva, at the UN Human Rights Council, the concern is primarily Israel.

By MYRON LOVEOn Rob Berkowits’ most recent visit to Israel in February, one of the programs that most impressed the executive director of the Jewish National Fund office for Manitoba and Saskatchewan was the Israel Defense Forces’ “Special in Uniform” project which enables youth with disabilities to fulfill a dream and to be like most young Israelis that serve in the IDF.